
Tag: Retro review


TRON–Landmark sci-fi, visual effects achievement celebrates 40th anniversary

Retro review–Ian Fleming’s novel Thunderball has it all


Lady in the Lake–You are the star in this classic noir film as fantastic a Christmas movie as Die Hard

Castle in the Air–Donald E. Westlake’s brilliantly funny heist classic returns to print

Retro review–Raymond Chandler’s early hardboiled crime novel, The Big Sleep

Retro review–Erle Stanley Gardner’s Shills Can’t Cash Chips, a twisty, fun, hard-boiled crime story

Retro read–Philip K. Dick’s look at life in 1950s San Francisco, The Broken Bubble

Retro review–Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man, and a TCM marathon of Nick, Nora, and Asta for New Year’s Eve

Retro review–Erle Stanley Gardner’s unpublished, “lost” Cool & Lam novel, The Knife Slipped

Retro fix–Outland, Sean Connery’s stint as a cop in a space Western

Retro read–Ian Fleming’s seventh James Bond novel, Goldfinger becomes one of his best-known stories

Retro read–Abraham Lincoln returns as an android in Philip K. Dick’s novel, We Can Build You

Retro fix–Vertigo, Boileau and Narcejac’s novel that inspired the Hitchcock film classic


Retro review–Jodie Foster’s dark and moody horror tale, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, is a fall classic


Retro review–W.P. Kinsella′s baseball classic, Shoeless Joe, a deeper dive into the story that became Field of Dreams


Retro review–Fleming’s fourth Bond novel, Diamonds Are Forever


Retro Review–The 25th anniversary of Elmore Leonard’s Rum Punch, the novel adapted by Quentin Tarantino into Jackie Brown


Retro review–Close Encounters of the Third Kind on the big screen again and as epic as ever


Retro Review–Intrigue and amnesia in noir classic “Somewhere in the Night”


Retro review–Double Indemnity writer James M. Cain’s last, “lost” novel, The Cocktail Waitress


Retro Review–Fletch author Gregory Mcdonald’s kidnapping thriller, Snatched


Retro review–Sinner Man, Lawrence Block’s lost, first crime novel


Retro review–A look at Michael Keaton in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown


Retro review–John Hughes’ Mr. Mom, a Michael Keaton comedy classic


Retro review–A look at Michael Keaton in Ron Howard’s Night Shift


Retro review–PKD’s “Now Wait for Last Year”


Retro review — Our favorite version of a Christmas classic


Retro review–Original The Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D, now on Blu-ray


Retro review–Steven Spielberg’s classic “Jaws” on the big screen, 39 years later


Retro review–A fifth of Bond, Fleming’s From Russia with Love


Retro review–The Spy Who Loved Me: Fleming at his worst


Retro review—Grave Descend, one of Michael Crichton’s “lost” adventure novels


Retro review–Ian Fleming’s first novel adapted to film, Doctor No


Retro review–One of Michael Crichton’s “lost” crime thrillers, Zero Cool


Retro review–“Scratch One,” one of eight “lost” Michael Crichton novels coming to bookstores


Because You’ve Never Really Seen “The Wizard of Oz”


Retro-recommendation–Sneakers and River Phoenix, 20 years later


Best of the Best retro review–The theatrical release of The Best of Both Worlds


Retro review–Nothing Lasts Forever, the novel that became Die Hard


Retro review–Philip José Farmer’s steampunk sequel “The Wind Whales of Ishmael”


Retro review–The Warlord of the Air, the proto-steampunk classic


Retro review–Mike Grell’s James Bond graphic novel, “Permission to Die”


Retro review–TCM’s screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s suspense thriller The Birds


Retro review–The Man Who Japed, Philip K. Dick’s third novel


Retro review–Moonraker, Fleming’s third James Bond novel


Retro review–Philip K. Dick’s second novel, The World Jones Made


Retro review–Live and Let Die, Fleming’s second Bond novel


Retro review: Ratking, Michael Dibdin’s first Inspector Zen novel


Best of the Best Retro Review: Doctor Who’s “Blink”

